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Welcome to the Database Group of the Computer Science Department at UC Santa Cruz. This site contains information on the research conducted by the faculty and students in our group, their publications, as well as the current schedule of the weekly database seminar.
Recent News:
Misc
- December 2010: Phokion Kolaitis elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Publications
- SIGMOD 2011:
- Research Paper: B. Alexe, B. ten Cate, P. Kolaitis, W-C Tan, "Designing and Refining Schema Mappings via Data Examples".
- Research Paper: A. Vlachou, C. Doulkeridis, N. Polyzotis, "Skyline Query Processing over Joins"
- VLDB 2011:
- Research Paper: A. Parameswaran, A. D. Sarma, H. Garcia-Molina, N. Polyzotis, J. Widom, "Human-assisted Graph Search: It's Okay to Ask Questions".
- Research Paper: D. Dash, A. Ailamaki, N. Polyzotis, "CoPhy: A Scalable, Portable, and Interactive Index Advisor for Large Workloads"
- CIDR 2011:
- Research Paper: A. Parameswaran, N. Polyzotis, "Answering Queries using Humans, Algorithms and Databases".
- Book Chapter (published in 2011): R. Fagin, P. Kolaitis, L. Popa, W.-C. Tan, "Schema Mapping Evolution Through Composition and Inversion", in Schema Matching and Mapping, Z. Bellahsene, A. Bonifati, E. Rahm (Eds.), Springer 2011.
- VLDB 2010:
- Research Paper: B. Alexe, M. Hernandez, L. Popa, W. Tan, "MapMerge: Correlating Independent Schema Mappings".
- Research Paper: D. Deutsch, T. Milo, N. Polyzotis, T. Yam, "Optimal Top-K Query Evaluation for Weighted Business Processes".
- Demonstration: J. Akbarnejad, G. Chatzopoulou, M. Eirinaki, S. Koshy, S. Mittal, D. On, N Polyzotis, J. Varman, "SQL QueRIE Recommendations".
- Paper in PersDB workshop: J. Akbarnejad, M. Eirinaki, S. Koshy, D. On, N. Polyzotis, "SQL QueRIE Recommendations: a query fragment-based approach".
- PODS 2010:
- N.Dalvi, K.Schnaitter, and D.Suciu "Computing Query Probability with Incidence Algebras", PODS 2010
- B. Alexe, P. Kolaitis and W-C Tan, "Characterizing Schema Mappings via Data Examples", PODS 2010
- SIGMOD 2010: - I. Alagiannis, D. Dash, A. Ailamaki, K. Schnaitter, and N. Polyzotis, "An Automated, yet Interactive and Portable DB Designer", Demonstration, SIGMOD 2010
- Book Chapter (published January 2010): A. Ailamaki, S. Krishnamurthy, S. Papadimitriou, B. Schroeder, K. Schnaitter, and G. Sherry, "PostgreSQL" Chapter of "Database System Concepts" by A. Silberschatz, H. F. Korth, and S. Sudarshan, Published by McGraw-Hill, Sixth Edition.
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